Learn about nonqualified deferred compensation plans, their advantages and disadvantages, and how they compare to other ...

You've climbed the corporate ladder, you're making good money and suddenly someone from human resources presents you with a newfangled employee benefit -- the opportunity to participate in a deferred ...

The fight over deferred compensation for advisors who have left their firms has now spilled over to Merrill. A putative class action suit filed in federal court in North Carolina late last month ...

Deferred compensation allows individuals to delay receiving part of their income until a future date, often during retirement. This strategy is appealing for retirement savings and tax management, as ...

When companies withhold a portion of an employee's pay until a specified date, usually after the employee retires, that withheld portion is termed deferred compensation. Businesses provide deferred ...

It was more than a little ironic, therefore. that American International Group, Inc. said that it is terminating 14 voluntary deferred compensation programs involving 5,600 employees and independent ...

When Enron imploded, everything it had done was held suspect, and one of those things was to permit employees to avoid current taxation by deferring compensation to future taxable years. By Schuyler ...

It is not unusual for deferred compensation (eg. stock options, restricted shares, RSU, REUs, and a whole host of others) to be addressed in marital settlement agreements, either as assets divided in ...

In big firms' fight to avoid paying deferred compensation to advisors who jump to rivals, much of the legal wrangling has centered on federal retirement law. But another factor is increasingly ...

Deferred compensation plans allow you to offer employees income spread out over the future in exchange for their work today. Retirement plans that you contribute to on behalf of your employees are a ...

Udpate Nov. 11, 2017: The version of the bill that passed the House does not include the new section 409B; and the Chairman's modified mark out of the Senate Finance Committee eliminated it. So, there ...

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